Enslaved: Sex-trafficking cases pervasive, hard to crack

Just three people convicted of crime in Wisconsin

8:11 AM,
Mar. 24, 2014

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Shereen Siewert

WAUSAU - Editor's note: Following is the first of a two-part report on the increase in human trafficking in Wisconsin.

It was an otherwise ordinary October day in 2010, as a 22-year-old woman strolled along National Avenue in Milwaukee, headed to a friend's home to spend the night.

An SUV pulled up alongside her. The door opened, and a stocky, bearded man jumped from the driver's seat, grabbed her by the jacket and threw her into the back of the vehicle. Frantic, she tried to call her friend for help; the call never went through. ...